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Are you a team player with a passion for food and people? Do you thrive in a busy environment? If so, then we are looking for someone just like you to help us deliver exceptional customer experience for Defence on a part time basis, contracted to 32.5 hours per week.

As a Customer Services Assistant, you will contribute to a passionate and friendly team working in a fast-paced environment. You'll get given every opportunity to progress within a company that invests in its people, celebrates individuality, and rewards and recognises employees who go beyond the plate.

Could you bring your spark to Defence? Here's what you need to know before applying:

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Preparing delicious, high-quality food that delights our clients and customers
li>Creating attractive food and counter displays
• Representing Defence and maintaining a positive brand image
• Handling cash and operating the cash register
• Complying with Food Handling & Hygiene standards
• Complying with Health & Safety regulations

Our ideal Customer Services Assistant will:

• Have an enthusiastic can-do attitude
• Display passion for delivering excellent customer service
• Be an excellent team player
• Arrive equipped with a desire to succeed in your role
• Thrive working under pressure
• Demonstrate outstanding timekeeping and reliability
• Have a safety-first mind set
• Have experience within a similar catering-related role, but this isn't essential.

Part of Compass Group UK&I, ESS is the Defence, Government, and Energy services sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland. We support 250+ UK military establishments, high profile police, secure environments and government sites, along with a range of onshore and offshore facilities including platforms, drilling rigs, floatels and offices for the energy sector. We know that a friendly face makes all the difference, so we look for people who are passionate about delivering excellent customer service, at all levels, to join our teams.

Job Reference: com/0808/95986001/52615785/BU #Defence

Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!

Customer Service Representative

Location:     Hybrid - Verwood, Dorset

Hours:      Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am - 4pm

Salary:     Up to £27,380pa

Customer Service Representative

Are you a customer service expert with a knack for problem-solving? We're searching for a dedicated individual to join a dynamic team and be the face of our client's customer support.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading European supplier of industrial, commercial, and office equipment. You'll be instrumental in ensuring complete customer satisfaction and playing a key role in building and maintaining strong client relationships through excellent customer service.

The Role and Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Sales Operations Manager, your mission will be to deliver outstanding customer service to both internal and external customers. Your day-to-day will involve:

• Problem Resolution: Proactively resolving a range of issues, from delivery queries and damages to returns and incorrect orders, while maintaining a positive and empathetic attitude.
li>Customer Communication: Being the main point of contact for customers via telephone, email, and webchat.
• Case Management: Efficiently managing cases and actioning outstanding queries in a timely manner, always ensuring the customer is kept informed.
• Liaison: Working directly with suppliers and carriers to swiftly resolve problems and minimise any impact on the customer.
• Team Support: Assisting the Sales Support team with order processing when required.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: You should have previous customer service experience, ideally in a fast-paced, high-volume call centre environment.
• Communication: An excellent telephone manner and strong written communication skills are essential.
• Skills: You must be highly computer literate with a solid working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Personal Attributes: We need a proactive multi-tasker who can work at pace under pressure. You should be a good team player with a high level of attention to detail and a flexible, professional approach.
• Bonus: Knowledge of systems such as AX2012 would be an advantage.

What's On Offer

• Leave: 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays, with additional days earned for long service.
• Flexibility: A hybrid working model is available, with the option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays. The role is based in the Dorset area.
• Progression: Genuine opportunities to progress within the company.
• Perks: Salary sacrifice schemes for cycles and electric vehicles, free on-site parking, a mid-month "pick me up," a Health Shield Healthcare cash plan upon joining, and a free will-writing service.

This is a fantastic permanent, full-time role for someone who is passionate about delivering exceptional customer service. If you're ready to take ownership of customer problems and make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Opportunity: Sales Administrator

Location: Poole

Salary: up to 24,495 DOE

Are you a detail-oriented, organised individual with a passion for providing excellent customer service? We are looking for a Sales Administrator to join our clients dynamic sales team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Accurately process sales orders
• Handle customer inquiries through telephone, email, and webchat
• Manage daily email correspondence and answer inbound calls, serving as the go-to contact for customers.
• Proactively reach out to customers about quotes, order issues, or aftercare needs.
• Log customer feedback and issues to maintain accurate records.
• Recommend additional products during telephone orders to boost sales.
• Work closely with marketing and warehouse teams to ensure smooth processes.

What We're Looking For:

• Strong organisational and multitasking skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

This role offers a supportive team, opportunities to enhance your customer service and sales skills, and the chance to contribute to a growing organisation. If you're ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we'd love to hear from you!

Customer Service Advisor

Location:     Poole, Dorset

Salary:     £26,000 per annum

Hours:     39 hours (Monday – Thursday 8.00am – 5.00pm Friday 8.00am – 4.00pm)

About Our Client:

We're representing a highly reputable and well-established business in the lighting industry, basedin Poole, Dorset. They are a leading supplier of high-quality domestic lighting, working with someof the UK's best high street and online retailers. Due to continued growth, they are now looking to hire a Customer Service Advisor to join their close-knit and supportive team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid customer service experience who enjoys a fast-paced environment where they can build strong client relationships and contribute to the business's success. This role is a perfect blend of account management, problem-solving, and proactive sales, offering a genuine chance to develop your career in a specialist field.

The Opportunity: What You'll Be Doing:

As a key member of the team, your role will be far more than just answering the phone. You'll become a product expert and a vital point of contact for key customer accounts. You'll be using your knowledge to help clients with a unique and diverse product range, including end-of-line items that are no longer available on the high street.

Your Main Responsibilities Will Include:

• Relationship Management: Building and nurturing strong, long-term relationships with a dedicated portfolio of customer accounts.
li>Proactive Selling: Identifying opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products and promotions, leveraging your product knowledge to offer tailored solutions and alternatives to out-of-stock items.
• Order & Query Management: Efficiently and accurately processing customer purchase orders through the internal system and handling a wide range of customer enquiries and low-level technical queries.
• Problem-Solving: Taking ownership of customer complaints and issues, working methodically to resolve them and ensure an excellent level of service is maintained.
• Team Collaboration: Working closely with the sales and warehouse departments to ensure a seamless and positive customer journey, from initial enquiry through to delivery.

Who We're Looking For:

We're searching for a candidate who is driven, personable, and has a real passion for delivering exceptional service. The ideal person will be a confident communicator with a meticulous eye for detail.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• A minimum of 12 months' experience in a fast-paced customer service or internal sales role.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to build rapport and trust with clients and colleagues.
• A methodical and organised approach to work, with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
• Strong attention to detail to ensure all order processing and data entry are accurate.
• A solid understanding of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, to a basic level.

Some of Our Clients Benefits include:

• Great team culture, within a supportive, stable progressive business
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Free parking
• Perkbox employee benefits
• Generous staff discounts

Customer Service Representative

Job Location:        Poole, Dorset

Job Type:     Permanent

Salary:    £25,000 - £27,000 per annum, depending on experience

Hours:     Monday – Thursday 8.15am – 4.45pm & Friday 8.15am – 3pm  

Benefits:     20 days holiday plus bank holidays + 3 days extra for Christmas shutdown, pension, free onsite parking, excellent working environment

One of the UK’s largest suppliers of engineered products are looking to add to their team by recruiting for a Customer Service Representative on a permanent basis to join their friendly, busy and hardworking team based in Poole.

Within this role your duties will include but are not limited to;

• Dealing with inbound customer enquiries
li>Monitoring sales order inbox and processing customer order requests
• Preparing and sending out customer quotations, then following up
• Keeping customers up to date on orders progress & delivery timescales
• Liaising with customers to find out about any upcoming projects and advising of any offers/promotions
• Maintaining accurate records
• Supporting the business development team with administration tasks

The successful applicant will possess the following:

• Previous Customer Service experience within an office environment
• Strives to consistently provide high levels of customer satisfaction
• Confident and proactive telephone manner
• PC literate with experience of Microsoft applications
• A team player that can work on own initiative
• Ability to work to tight timescales

For more information, please apply with a full CV and covering letter by email or call our Recruitment Team on (phone number removed).

Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.

Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance on the basis of their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender.

By completing our application process, you are authorising us as a Recruitment Agency to contact you in connection with your application by email and / or telephone & SMS under GDPR Article 6(1) (a) and you are also consenting to receiving information via the same means in relation to Resource Recruitment providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website under the Privacy Policy tab on our website. Should you wish, you may opt out at any time.

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• Communicating with customers over the phone,  via online methods, such as text, emails and web chat
• Responding to all communication matters promptly
• Communicating with other third parties when required and internal teams
• Processing admin tasks, keeping all systems updated with relevant information
• Other adhoc duties will be required from time to time

• Any experience from backgrounds such as retail and hospitality is considered 
• Office-based Loans / Financial services / admin/customer service experience is desirable!
• Any experience within a financial services setting is hugely desirable
• Being PC literate with a good understanding of the Microsoft package
• Be highly motivated with a can-do attitude. 

Job Opportunity: Sales Administrator

Location: Poole

Salary: up to 24,495 DOE

Are you a detail-oriented, organised individual with a passion for providing excellent customer service? We are looking for a Sales Administrator to join our clients dynamic sales team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Accurately process sales orders
• Handle customer inquiries through telephone, email, and webchat
• Manage daily email correspondence and answer inbound calls, serving as the go-to contact for customers.
• Proactively reach out to customers about quotes, order issues, or aftercare needs.
• Log customer feedback and issues to maintain accurate records.
• Recommend additional products during telephone orders to boost sales.
• Work closely with marketing and warehouse teams to ensure smooth processes.

What We're Looking For:

• Strong organisational and multitasking skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

This role offers a supportive team, opportunities to enhance your customer service and sales skills, and the chance to contribute to a growing organisation. If you're ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we'd love to hear from you!

We now have an exciting and varied opportunity for a Customer Service Advisor/Administrator to join our repairs and maintenance team at Lymington Hospital. Rydon Maintenance provides hard facilities management services at the hospital incorporating planned preventative and reactive maintenance.

Rydon is a successful construction, development, maintenance, investment and management group operating throughout England. We are a dynamic, multi talented organisation, working across a wide range of construction market sectors within the built environment. Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare and housing association sectors.

Job Purpose

As Customer Service Advisor you will work as part of a small team running the day to day operations of the repairs helpdesk for the hospital, ensuring the quality of our service delivery. This will involve taking calls from our client, contractors and operational teams, inputting repair requests and generating reports. You will liaise closely with engineers and contractors and allocate work appropriately, storing documents, and responding to maintenance queries both over the phone and email. You will play a key part in ensuring that KPIs and SLAs across the contract are being met.

Some key responsibilities include;

• To monitor the outstanding repair calls within the helpdesk.
li>To take calls from general public who are requiring guidance regarding hospital appointments.
• Planning in daily works for site engineers.
• To ensure effective communication between our operational team and our client.
• Ordering of materials required by the engineers, speaking to suppliers and contractors. 
< i>Provide additional administration and support, where required for other team members and managers.
• Assist in the compiling of reports and to monitor compliance, highlighting/escalating any areas of concern.

This is a varied and pivotal role within our busy and successful team. 

Experience Required

The successful candidate will have previous customer service or helpdesk experience. This experience will ideally have been gained with a maintenance company/contractor however this is not essential.  Above all you will have excellent customer service skills (including good telephone and written communication skills), a can-do attitude and enjoy working as part of a team. You will have knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Word and Excel. 

If you have the above experience, we'd strongly encourage you to apply. 

Additional Information

As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.  

To apply online, please use the 'apply for this job link' at the top of this page to be redirected to our dedicated careers page to complete your application.

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We specialise in recruiting talent for the Data Centre Sector and are looking for Recruitment Consultants to join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of this industry.

Is Recruitment The Career For You?

We don't care what experience you have got.

It's about who you are.

You might have worked in recruitment, or you might never have even thought about it until now. What matters is your mindset and attitude. Skills can be learned but your mindset is what is important to us and what sets apart the most successful people from the rest.

• Do you thrive when you're challenged?
• Do you back yourself to figure things out, even if you don't know the answer straight away?
• Do you want to grow, push your potential, and build something you're proud of?

If so then you could be who we are looking for.

Whether you've worked in sales, hospitality, real estate, customer service, or something completely different - if you're good with people, resilient, and driven, we can teach you the rest.

What You'll Be Doing

You will connect talented people with the companies building tomorrow's digital world.

You'll learn an industry that's growing globally, with opportunities to work across Europe, the US, and Asia.

You'll build long-term relationships and become an expert in a sector that's only going one way - up.

What You'll Need

Confidence to have real conversations with people

The drive to learn and grow quickly

The resilience to keep going when it gets hard

A genuine interest in talking to people

What You'll Get

A clear career path based on your effort and results

Uncapped earnings - your success decides your pay

Supportive training and development to build your skills

A great culture

Why This Matters

In 10 years, AI and digital infrastructure will have transformed the way we live and work.

When you look back, you can say:

"I was part of that."